Elements of Criticism, 2. köideJ. Bell and W. Creech, 1788 |
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... should be doubt- ed whether perfpicuity be a pofitive beauty , it cannot be doubted that the want of it is the greatest defect . Nothing therefore in language ought more to be studied , than to prevent all ob- fcurity scurity in the ...
... should be doubt- ed whether perfpicuity be a pofitive beauty , it cannot be doubted that the want of it is the greatest defect . Nothing therefore in language ought more to be studied , than to prevent all ob- fcurity scurity in the ...
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... should be a perpe- tual intercourse of buying and felling , and dealing upon credit , where fraud is permitted or connived at , or hath no law to punish it , the honest dealer is always undone , and the knave gets the advantage . Better ...
... should be a perpe- tual intercourse of buying and felling , and dealing upon credit , where fraud is permitted or connived at , or hath no law to punish it , the honest dealer is always undone , and the knave gets the advantage . Better ...
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... should be general . Of this kind , in our own unfortunate country , was that destructive peftilence , whose mortality was fo fatal as to fweep away , if Sir William Petty may be believed , five millions of Chriftian fouls , befides ...
... should be general . Of this kind , in our own unfortunate country , was that destructive peftilence , whose mortality was fo fatal as to fweep away , if Sir William Petty may be believed , five millions of Chriftian fouls , befides ...
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... should not be thrown away upon acceffories , but To give force or elevation to a period , it ought to be- gin and end with a long fyllable . For a long fyllable makes naturally the ftrongest impreffion ; and of all the fyllables in a ...
... should not be thrown away upon acceffories , but To give force or elevation to a period , it ought to be- gin and end with a long fyllable . For a long fyllable makes naturally the ftrongest impreffion ; and of all the fyllables in a ...
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... should be placed ? It does not seem eafy , at first view , to bring a fubject apparently fo loofe under any general rule : but luckily , reflecting VOL . II . F upon upon what is faid in the first chapter about order Seat . II . BEAUTY ...
... should be placed ? It does not seem eafy , at first view , to bring a fubject apparently fo loofe under any general rule : but luckily , reflecting VOL . II . F upon upon what is faid in the first chapter about order Seat . II . BEAUTY ...
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